The Giver Vocab Set 1 Study Guide

Match the following

• defy

• a feeling of anxiety or worry; lack of peace

• accustomed

• to openly resist or refuse to obey

• diminish

• used to, familiar with

• conceivable

• can be imagined or believed

• disquiet

• to make or become less in size and importance

Match the following

• exempt

• to send out; to pass to another person

• solemn

• great enjoyment

• haste

• free from having to follow a rule that others must obey

• transmit

• not cheerful or smiling; very serious

• relish

• too much speed; great hurry

Match the following

• diminish

• Tahmir ____ the school's polic about boys having long hair by refusing to cut his dreadlocks

• defy

• The dog was ____ to getting food scraps from the table

• disquieted

• It is ____ that the teacher will give a quiz today over last night's reading.

• conceivable

• Buying jeans and a new shirt ____ the amount of money in Jayden's wallet.

• accustomed

• The families near the burn area were ____ by the smoke in the skies.

Match the following

• solemn

• All students with a 90% average or better were ____ from doing the project.

• haste

• In a ____ tone, the doctor told the family how ill their relative was.

• transmitted

• It was an incredible discovery to learn sound waves could be ____ in the air and picked by a radio receiver.

• relished

• Kimberly left the house with such ____ that se forgot her purse.

• exempt

• You could see in her eyes that she ____ the cookies her mother made for her.

Even though the obstacle course was difficult, and many people would tell a child to not do it, Karli decided that she would do it anyway. No one would tell her what she can't do.

• defiant

• disquieted

• conceivable

Angel wasted his day by napping and watching TV. Then he realized his mother would be home in 15 minutes. He rushed to clean up the kitchen and vacuum the floor.

• exemption

• haste

• relish

Gregorio's father hadn't heard from him all day and that wasn't like him. He usually called in the morning on his way to work and now it was noon. His father kept looking at his phone, worried.

• exemption

• haste

• disquiet

I only eat vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles. I get it every time I go to the ice cream shop. Even if they offer a sampling. I still get vanilla and rainbow sprinkles.

• transmitted

• conceived

• accustomed

It had been raining for three days. Nicole was so happy when the sun came out. She went for a walk, soaking in the beautiful, warm sunshine.

• diminish

• relish

• transmit

During the war, some armies would use morse code or a system of long and short beeps to send information and share messages across battlelines.

• transmit

• defy

• accustom